Can I also plead that we don’t need to know the layout of your entire house to hear about something scary that happened inside? The long, overly detailed and confusing architectural descriptions are nearly a convention at this point.

And like I plead every year, folks, please please remember that longer doesn’t mean better. Brevity is the soul of dread. 

I”m sure I’m going to regret bringing you out of the greys, but when you talk about a nation of “indigenous people” and “refugees,” are you talking about Israel or Palestine? Because, Palestinians are the indigenous people of land that Israel exists on now (the majority of Israelis of Jewish descent would trace their…

oh noes she failed an impossible purity test, we’d better eat her

It’s not great that she voted “present” instead of taking a stand, and it’s not great that she apparently did so for cynical political reasons (also, in the end, it’s not going to stop the criticism, it’s just a matter of changing the attack ad copy from “AOC voted ‘No’ on protecting Israeli lives” to “AOC refused to…

Be the change, buddy.

Very sad. I know in some states that the police are required to take someone into custody if they see obvious scratch/ bruise/stab marks on a victim. It’s not really up to the couple…. because of course people will say “Oh never mind, we are ok now” when the police arrive. I only know this because I accidentally…

I’m not a nurse, but I work with them regularly, and they are truly just regular people. There’s probably been a sliding doors moment in all of their lives, and many of them could have easily become make-up artists or fitness instructors or car dealers or kindergarten teachers, etc. Some of them are passionate about…

When I gave birth (at the hospital my husband works at) in March my husband told me to keep quiet about the vaccine. He told me there is a surprisingly large amount of anti-vax nurses and that he didn’t want a nurse to treat or care for me differently based on my pro-vax status.

This is the perfect opportunity for nurses that wanted to be in Labor and Delivery and Mother Baby. Those positions are hard to come by. And for the now jobless hacks, I hope no hospital hires them back until they get fully vaccinated. Fuck them.

If you’re genuinely interested in knowing, vaccine hesitancy has many reasons. These are a few:

1.) Admitting that the leaders of your ideology would rather get rich than see you live would ruin anyone’s sense of identity and potentially cause a mental health crisis. This is also a common reason why people deny spouses…

I get your point, but smoking is a little different - the coronavirus doesn’t have a multibillion-dollar industry dedicated to infecting people before they are old enough to decide it’s a bad idea, and the virus isn’t one of the most addictive substances known to humanity. And there is no culture where people are…

Thanks for the clear and honest self-correction.

I have never smoked in my life, but I can understand people getting hooked on smoking at a young age or while in a stressful job more than I can understand so-called medical professionals deciding not to get vaccinated without a serious reason. If they’re smoking outside, at least the only people they are harming are…

My “twitter fingers” went before my brain. I’ve been reading about this other places and talking with folks from up there and apparently the closure is only a rumor at this time. That’s my bad for spreading unsourced (at this time) foolery.

So it really is all political, eh? I know that pre-Covid vaccine hesitancy tended to cross political lines — from the Goopies to the hippies to the homeschooling Christians — but statistically Covid vaccine hesitancy is dominated by Republicans (if not entirely).

If they can’t endanger babies while committing suicide, why even bother?

Who would want an unvaccinated worker anywhere near their vulnerable newborn?  Good riddance.

So, this is my hometown, and hearing about how this is tearing apart the families of my friends that still live there is gutting. This kind of divide is affecting families all across the country. There were a lot of great things about growing up in that small town, but this kind of thinking is why I left.

Fortunately it will be easier and safer if they can get the pills